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| Title | Providing Multilingual, Multimodal Answers to Lexical Database Queries |
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| Authors | Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum |
| Abstract | Language users are increasingly turning to electronic resources to addresstheir lexical information needs, due to their convenience and their ability tosimultaneously capture different facets of lexical knowledge in a singleinterface. In this paper, we discuss techniques to respond to a user's lexicalqueries by providing multilingual and multimodal information, and facilitatingnavigating along different types of links. To this end, structured informationfrom sources like WordNet, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, as well as Web services islinked and integrated to provide a multi-faceted yet consistent response touser queries. The meanings of words in many different languages arecharacterized by mapping them to appropriate WordNet sense identifiers andadding multilingual gloss descriptions as well as example sentences.Relationships are derived from WordNet and Wiktionary to allow users todiscover semantically related words, etymologically related words, alternativespellings, as well as misspellings. Last but not least, images, audiorecordings, and geographical maps extracted from Wikipedia and Wiktionary allowfor a multimodal experience. |
| Language | Tools, systems, applications |
| Topics | Lexicon, lexical database, Multilinguality, Tools, systems, applications |
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Providing Multilingual, Multimodal Answers to Lexical Database Queries |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{DEMELO10.312, author = {Gerard de Melo and Gerhard Weikum}, title = {Providing Multilingual, Multimodal Answers to Lexical Database Queries}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |